norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. this is "piers morgan live." welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. tonight, breaking news from cleveland, disturbing new details of ariel castro's days and nights behind bars. he's still under what's called suicide prevention and is reportedly been walking around his cell naked. we also have a new audio recording of the arrest of ariel castro. listen to this. >> per a neighbor, he also rides motorcycles, he has like three motorcycles that he personally owns. the suspect. >> the male's in custody? >> much more from the cnn exclusive, what ariel castro's brothers say now. >> i hope he rots in that jail. i don't even want them to take his life like that. i want him to suffer in that jail.

>> plus the white house under fire. not just the battle over benghazi, not just charges that the irs targeted the tea party. now an unprecedented seizure of reporters' phone records. does it have anything to do with the investigation of an al qaeda bomb plot and does the national interest outweigh freedom of the press. also, our legal experts on law and disorder on the docket tonight, the philadelphia abortion doctor, ariel castro, jodi arias and the return of o.j. simpson to the courtroom. we'll break down all the biggest legal stories of the day. but we begin with the latest from cleveland. ed gallek of woio is back with me now. you have a fascinating insight into ariel castro's life inside cells. tell me about this. >> reporter: well, since this guy is under suicide watch, jailors are logging everything he does, every ten minutes, and look at all these logs just from the last couple of days. what we're noticing, some real oddities. at one point, deputies noted they saw this guy walking around

in his cell naked, and then another time, this is really bizarre, deputies saw him trying to floss his teeth with strings from a mat in his cell. again, trying to floss his teeth with strings from a mat inside his cell. deputies went in there and clipped the string so we are seeing some real oddities here. in fact, this guy is also complaining at times about having a headache, it's cold, he wants a blanket. so he's all over the board. the psych doctor is also seeing him on a regular basis as well. maybe you can see why. >> we certainly can. now, the interesting thing about him is at the moment, there's no dna evidence linking him to any other crimes of this nature, not only in his own state, but also now nationally, is that right? >> reporter: that's right. the ohio attorney general did a dna sample through ohio last week and then just today, the a.g. got back the results from the fbi, a nationwide search. this guy's dna did not come up for any unsolved crimes anywhere in the country, and the a.g. also checked out the brothers. so the brothers are clear as far as any other unsolved crimes

that we know about in the rest of the country. >> finally, ed, court records have been revealed that show that ariel testified in a court case against the stepfather of his children in 2005 in a rather interesting development there. tell me about that. >> reporter: this could be a problem for ariel castro. i pulled the transcript from when ariel castro testified back in 2005 in this old court case. what's interesting about that is he's asked under oath where do you live, 2207 seymour. do you live alone. yes. well, now we know police believe all three women had been kidnapped by then so here's this guy in court under oath saying i live alone, and yet police believe at that time, the three women were right back here chained up, kidnapped. >> fascinating. ed gallek, thank you very much indeed. now i want to bring in cnn's randi kaye. she has exclusive new photographs of ariel castro's backyard taken by a neighborhood over the weekend. what they show is disturbing. tell me about these pictures.

you have dozens of them and they really are fascinating and disturbing. >> reporter: yeah, they are actually just chilling, piers, to look at. the photos as you said were taken over the weekend by this neighbor. he asked not to be identified. now, in all, there were more than 70 photos. let me just show you some of the highlights, some of the more interesting photos. first we have this very wide shot of the backyard. if you take a look, you can see how messy it was. it's more like a junk yard. but you do see a little car on the right side there that a child would use, also a basketball net on the left side, and that's the garage in the distance. we also looked at those photos and saw there were spools and spools of barbed wire all over the yard, thick rolls of it, like you see in the photo there. we don't know for sure, but this may have been used to keep his captives inside, perhaps, in case they made a run for it. and very likely, to keep anyone else on the outside from trying to get in, piers. that stuff as you can see can do some real damage to anyone. and look at this next photo. this one's pretty chilling.

it's a chain around a tree. now, castro did have puppies, but our photographer who gave us these photos says that hundreds of chains, not just a couple, but hundreds were found in the yard, really thick heavy chains, and of course, remember the police report said that ariel castro had kept the girls, his victims, chained up in the basement originally and then chained up elsewhere in the house. also, you can see in the photo there's a pulley in this one photo, it's in the grass there, so he had some type of pulley system but it's unclear as to why, piers. >> also, interestingly, you found some children's bikes and the one that's of particular interest is one that has pink adornments to it suggesting it may be, we don't know this, obviously, but it may belong or have been bought for the little 6-year-old girl that he bore with amanda berry. >> reporter: right. that girl was taken out of that house. we found red bikes there in the photos and also, the pink bike, a barbie bicycle, and as we

said, we don't know for sure, but if you look at that barbie bike, it certainly caught our attention and it may have belonged to that little girl, amanda berry's daughter, who ariel castro has fathered. we don't know for sure, but certainly, it's a picture of innocence there in the backyard of what we can only call a house of horror. it's so creepy. but if you continue to look at the photos, piers, there was a mirror. this one really struck us. you look at this photo, and there is a mirror hanging at castro's back door. you can see it there, that black piece in the frame. and it's now boarded up, that door, but this is critical because it allowed him to stand at his back door, see whoever was coming up his driveway, even though the driveway was completely out of view. so maybe he used this to prevent any surprise visitors. in fact, one neighbor told us that the guy who took this photo, that when he would go visit castro at his home before he could even get halfway up the driveway, castro would pop out his front door as if he was expecting him and clearly, he knew he was coming, and now we

know why. also, the backyard, if you take a look at the next photo, it's all boarded up. he had apparently removed the windows from his home and they were scattered around. we saw them in other photos that we took a look at today. but you see the gray wood in the windows. well, apparently he had removed the windows and boarded up his home with a lot of this gray wood to make sure that nobody could see what was going on inside that home and who might have been inside that home. the last photo that we want to show you is this blue tarp in the backyard. that is in the area of the garage. you see it there. apparently he had covered his entire yard with tarp, covered up the whole thing. he used blue tarp, green tarp, gray tarp, according to our photographer, and there was also a lot of piping and rolls of tarp that were still on the ground in the backyard. so he may have been planning to do more work related to the tarp, even now, around his house, piers. >> extraordinary photographs.

randi kaye, thank you very much. terrific reporting. i want to play you just a clip from martin savidge's exclusive interview with ariel castro's brothers, pedro and onil. like so many friends and family, they apparently never suspected what was going on behind closed doors for nearly a decade. now the brothers called him a monster and say they have nothing to do with the crimes. >> what is your brother to you now? >> monster. hateful. i hope he rots in that jail. i don't even want them to take his life like that. i want him to suffer in that jail. til the last extent. i don't care if they even feed him, what he has done to my life and my family's. >> i couldn't never think of doing anything like that. if i knew that my brother was doing this, i would not be -- i would not -- in a minute i would call the cops. because that ain't right. but yeah, it's going to haunt me

down because people are going to think pedro got something to do with this. pedro don't have nothing to do with this. if i knew, i would have reported him, brother or no brother. >> ariel castro's brothers branding him a monster. the three young women held prisoner face the challenge of trying to rebuild their lives after ten years in captivity. joining me is a man who knows all about this challenge, a psychologist. welcome back to you. this is a really gripping, fascinating, disturbing, sickening case in many ways. from what you've seen there of the pictures in particular, around this house, are we dealing with a monster? you've dealt with monsters before. is that what ariel castro is? >> what he did was monstrous but if we call him a monster, what we're doing is closing the book on understanding how this human being was able to create this prison in his own home and lock these three women up and the horrific acts and abuse that took place. so do i think he's a monster?

i think he's a human being who did monstrous things and we need to understand them, for many reasons. >> what are the aspects to his character that you have read or seen about in the last week that tell you that really, what's behind it is some sort of personality flaw, i guess. >> i wouldn't call it a personality flaw. i'm not going to diagnose him from this distance, as i always say, but let's talk about what's been revealed. this is somebody who has been abusing women since 1989. that's clear, that's in the record. he's been on probation, this is not the first time. this may very well be the escalation, the end point, of a long history of abusive behavior. >> how do you explain, though, xavier, the number of friends, even family who say -- >> because we ignore abuse. we ignore abuse. there are people in your life who you've run across, i bet, and the people listening to us, who know somebody who is an abuser but we ignore it because we stay ignorant to the warning signs. in all the reports cnn is reporting and other news

agencies are reporting, we see the classic signs of abuse. a controlling guy loses his temper, he can't, just on your show last friday, he can't keep his job in a band because he's aggressive and violent. really classic signs, and a history of abuse, being on probation for abuse, and so i'm not surprised that he continued the abuse because the cycle of abuse never got broken. >> do you believe his brothers knew absolutely nothing? >> yeah. well, i think it's credible. let me put it that way. of course it's credible. it's exactly what i just said to you. i think most people want to -- we're afraid. i'm terrified when i see something like this. i've got kids, i've got a daughter. i'm terrified when i see something like this. i want to label him a monster and push him away into the realm of mystery and you know, supernatural evil. but it's not. he's a man, he's a man and like many men who do abuse, unfortunately, and we know a lot about it and we can find if we look for the warning signs, this

probably could have been prevented. >> he claimed in this note which we haven't had independently verified but police apparently found the note in which he made a sort of mea culpa in 2004-05 in which he called himself a sex addict. could that be at the center of all the depravity that followed? >> in that same note he also said i was abused as a child by an uncle and i want to give my money to my victims. so -- >> what do you read into this? >> what i read into that is this is somebody who may very well have been abused just first and foremost, statistically, men who abuse in this manner tend to have been abused as children. that's not the abuse excuse. understand, this is about understanding. this is about explaining, not explaining away what happened. so that note says to me that there may be abuse in his history. certainly he's an abusive person. and he's somebody who has insight into the fact that he's an abusive person, and alone writing a note if indeed it's true, that says a lot to me that this is somebody who wanted help. probably wanted help, never -- certainly never got it.

didn't want it enough. >> he never sought it, though, did he? that's the other thing you can say about him. he seemed to have two completely separate lives. one of this appalling depravity going on inside his house. the moment he left, with the odd flash of behavioral issues, very little would have been real alarm bells. >> don't mistake what i'm about to say. he is a garden variety abuser. now, there's nothing garden variety about kidnapping and holding three women for that long and causing abortions and giving -- and birthing this little girl that he's raised. nothing garden variety about that. but what is garden variety is the way in which all the warning signs unfolded and all the ways in which he evidenced the signs of a classic abuser of women, someone who was very controlling, someone who people did see the warning signs, but they normalized it. they just said well, that's who he is and he's a nice guy in every other way but in his private life alone with women, that's where the pathology comes out. that's where the abuse comes

out. >> what about the three women? we know that two of them, amanda and gina, seem to have adapted pretty well to getting back to their families but they have been received very lovingly and there's clearly no issue there. with michelle knight, the one we know least about, really, clearly a mother's desperate to see her again. she doesn't want to see her, particularly difficult situation there. how you would think that may remedy itself? >> these three girls, young women, and one of them a girl when she was kidnapped, have been through a horrific experience and they're all i'm sure suffering from trauma. everybody handles trauma in different ways. one of the ways to handle trauma is to isolate, to slow the world down and focus on what's right in front of me. and i can't say what's going on with her. i think we should be really hesitant to read anything into it other than she has been through a tremendous amount and she needs time. >> finally, is it likely as seems to be the case at the moment, because of no dna evidence to the contrary, that he didn't offend really until

perhaps his 40s? >> i think that it's likely that he offended somewhat and then it escalated. actually, he did offend prior to his 40s. >> what happened? >> 1989, he abused his wife. this has been going on for 20 years. that's just the first time it came to the attention of law enforcement. so it goes back to his 20s. so we know that there's the pattern. that's the thing that's so frustrating for me as a psychologist and someone who has worked on cases like this, is that all the warning signs were there every step of the way, and it escalated. where it really escalated, again, we talked about this in other cases, is when he was permitted to isolate and by permitted, i don't mean -- i'm not pointing a finger at anybody. i'm just saying he isolated, literally boarded up, as you have shown us tonight, the windows, the doors. >> he created a dungeon with all the secret mirrors and cameras and the boarded up windows, he's creating his own little private world of hell. >> he stuck behind enemy lines which means he stuck behind his own ears and his own ears telling him these women are to

blame for what i'm doing to them. that's the classic abuse psychology. >> dr. amador, fascinating. thank you very much indeed. the white house under fire. the irs scandal, benghazi, now the justice department secretly collecting reporters' phone records. what happened to the president's pledge of transparency? i'll ask first amendment advocate floyd abrams. later, law and disorder. inside the biggest cases of the day from ariel castro to o.j. simpson to jodi arias. all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers.

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when president obama first took office he pledged to make transparency a hallmark of his white house. listen to what he said in january of 2009, just one day into his first term. >> i want to make government accountable, make it transparent so that the american people can know exactly what decisions are being made, how they're being made, and whether their interests are being well served. let me say it as simply as i can. transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency. >> hm. now the obama administration is caught in the middle of a first amendment war between the justice department and the associated press. the a.p. says the government secretly collected phone records of reporters during a two-month period last year and it questions whether that was

related to a probe into leaks of the details of a foiled terror plot last year. joining me is constitutional first amendment attorney, floyd abrams, author of "friend of the court" on the front lines with the first amendment. welcome to you. i've got to say, this whole transparency thing with the president is crumbling, isn't it, because first of all -- let's go back two weeks. the whole guantanamo bay issue rumbles on, a place he said he would shut down but didn't. then we have benghazi, where we have apparently 12 corrections in terms of talking points. then we have the irs targeting tea partiers and people who use the word patriot or say they want to improve their country, and now we have this. we have the justice department targeting a.p., the associated press. what do you make of all this? how transparent is this? because it seems to me to be pretty nontransparent. >> look, i don't think the one we learned about today is so

much a matter of transparency as a violation or at least a danger to the first amendment, to the notion of civil liberties and the like. some of the others, though, obviously do raise serious questions of candor with the american public. there's just no denying it. >> in terms of the specific issue of the breaking story tonight involving the associated press, have they broken the law, the justice department, by doing this? >> it's possible. i doubt it, though. you know, the department of justice has internal regulations which govern their behavior. as a general proposition, before they go after phone records or confidential sources, they're supposed to negotiate, supposed to talk to the journalists or the journalists' bosses. here, they didn't. now, there is an exception in this rule here if by even communicating to them, it would

interfere with the integrity of the investigation. but it sure is hard to believe that an investigation which was really pretty well known around washington and certainly to the a.p. could have been so frustrated by simply giving them a chance to go to court. that's one of the real problems here. if you don't tell them in advance, if you don't tell the journalist, if you don't tell the a.p., they have no recourse. they can't go to court and ask a judge to protect them because the secret is gone. >> nothing is completely outrageous. my first amendment rights which obviously are extremely important in this particular case, but also the whole issue of protecting sources. let's remind everyone when they were asked to hold the story, which involved this foiled terror plot, they did do that. so they behaved very responsibly. >> very. very. >> and they have been rewarded for this responsible journalism by being kicked in the teeth, it seems to me. >> yeah. now, look, i think that's

absolutely right. now, from justice's point of view, they don't care about that. they want to get their guy. they want to get the person who did the leaking. but in the course of that, look what they're doing. 20 different telephones over two months from the associated press, all those calls recorded, that is to say, who spoke to whom via telephone number, all that is now in the hands of the department of justice. that's not america at its best. >> no. that's at its worst. i would like to know if they went further and actually bugged the journalists. that wouldn't surprise me either. let's read two statements here, one from the a.p.'s president and ceo. he wrote to attorney general eric holder and in part said there can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of the associated press and its reporters. these records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all the news gathering activities undertaken by the a.p. during a two-month period, provide a road map to

a.p.'s news gathering operations and disclose information about a.p.'s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know. we regard the action by the department of justice as a serious interference with a.p.'s constitutional rights to gather and report the news. now, the justice department responded by saying regulations require us to make every reasonable effort to obtain information through alternative means before even considering a subpoena for the phone records of a member of the media. we must notify the media organization in advance unless doing so would pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation. that's all very well, but the reality is that here you have a real attack on the freedom of the press, don't you? >> absolutely. absolutely. every word that you read, every word of the head of the associated press was accurate. what this does is to put in the hands of the government every indication of who spoke to whom on matters having nothing,

nothing at all, to do with their investigation over a two-month period, and this is the sort of stuff, really, that if some foreign country did, the state department would complain about on grounds of interference with human rights. >> absolutely. i think it's a total disgrace. floyd abrams, thank you very much indeed for joining me. >> thank you. when we come back, more crises for the obama administration. the battle over benghazi and charges that the irs targeted tea party groups. i'll ask what it all means for the white house. both tylenol and bayer back & body are proven to be effective pain relievers tylenol works by blocking pain signals to your brain bayer back & body's dual action formula includes aspirin, which blocks pain at the site. try the power of bayer back & body. try the power withyou'll find reviewsve time, on home repair to healthcareon. written by people just like you. you want to be sure the money you're about to spend

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obama administration fight at one time? the seizure of reporters' phone records, cover-up allegations over benghazi and the irs allegedly targeting tea party groups. the president sounded defiant and angry and promised answers. joining me now is maryland democrat, elijah cummings, ranking member of the house committee on oversight and government reform. welcome to you, congressman. let me ask you straight away, are you as appalled by this a.p. story as i am? >> yeah, it is very upsetting, but i think, piers, we're going to have to see what more there is to this story. i just read it a few minutes ago. i think we're going to have to look into it. but it does concern me, as it should concern all of us. >> i mean, 20 phone lines, maybe 100 journalists, over a two-month period, every call they made, logged and recorded. that is just outrageous. >> again, i want to see exactly, you know, a little bit more information. but i can tell you as a lawyer,

it concerns me and it should concern all of us here on capitol hill and like i said, everybody in the country. >> and it comes at a time when the obama administration's integrity, i think, is being seriously questioned for the first time in many ways. let's turn to the irs and this targeting of tea party supporters. again, it seems to me pretty outrageous. they're supposed to be nonpolitical, nonpartisan. we now know that irs operatives in washington were involved in this, which makes you wonder how high up this food chain we're going to get. but that again is an outrageous abuse of their position, isn't it? >> no doubt about it. i can tell you, i remember when these issues came up under president nixon, it basically was chilling to hear of some of the abuses, and now when we see and hear about what's going on in the irs and the things that

they've already apologized for, i got to tell you, our society, our democracy, has no room for that, and i think anybody who has been improperly addressing our taxpayers and the tax-exempt organizations, they need -- and doing it improperly, they need to be punished to the highest level possible. period. our society, i often say, piers, that we have to guard our democracy. this is our watch. we've got to guard it with regard to freedom of the press. we've got to guard it with regard to making sure that people are able to live under the constitution that we -- that's over our country, and we cannot stand around and just let these things happen. >> let's turn to benghazi, because this still rumbles on although i personally think that these two latest things involving the irs and the attack on a.p.'s reporters are arguably even more serious but let's just

go back to benghazi, because it all comes down in the end to trust. trust in the government, trust in the white house, trust in the president. when you change 12 different parts of the talking points on an incident like this and you remove all mention of al qaeda or indeed, of any kind of terrorist group, when you do that, people's trust is going to be badly damaged. >> i think you're absolutely right. but again, we're missing the point. i think we ought to deal with these talking points, i think they're very important, but piers, we had four brave and wonderful diplomats to die, and the thing i guess i'm concerned about, okay, let's deal with the talking points, but let's make sure that our diplomatic corps and our embassies are properly guarded. i want to make sure that if we

have emergencies like we had here in benghazi, that our forces are where they need to be to address an emergency. those are the kind of things that i'm most concerned about. >> i agree with you. i agree with you on that. but here's the thing. i also want to trust, though, the government when they say what happened. and it seems to me quite clear now that they deliberately fudged things because what they didn't want to tell the american people is you know what, this could have been al qaeda because that would have meant the war on al qaeda was suddenly in reverse again. >> i think you had a situation where there was a dispute with regard to talking points between the cia and the state department, but certainly, the american people deserve the truth. that's one of the reasons why, piers, i wanted to -- our chairman, chairman issa, to allow folks to come forward who wrote the report, the accountability report, so they

could come forth and tell us exactly what happened. you know, pickering and certainly mullen, both of them are honorable people. they have done an extensive report. we welcomed, of course, the whistleblowers. they came forth, they -- you know, to say what they said, and then we had chairman issa the other day, on sunday, making various accusations about the authors of the report and now he said he's going to have them go and spend some time with some staffers in private and not allow them for the moment to come forth and make their presentation in public. they've been -- he said they have been untruthful and that they have done -- not done a complete job. those are the kinds of allegations that are very, very serious, and they need -- they need to have the same opportunity that our whistleblowers had to make their presentation.

i think whenever you have a situation where you have accused somebody of those kinds of things, they need to have a forum to address them. >> i would not disagree with you. final question, briefly, if you don't mind. when you add the a.p. story, scandal, let's call it that, the irs scandal, the ongoing scandal of benghazi, this has been the worst week the president's had, isn't it? >> this is without a doubt, this has been a tough week. but again, piers, i think we're going to have to look at the information as it comes in. keep in mind that we're going to get the irs report sometime this week. the a.p. story is just breaking. we have to see what's there. and of course, i do believe that we're going to be able to hopefully, if we can do some things on a bipartisan basis, address this benghazi situation so yeah, it's been a tough week. but you know what, our country's been through tough times before. again, this is our watch and we've got to do everything in our power to make sure that we address the issues and address them in a way that's forthright

and very transparent. >> well, i think you hit the nail on the head with that word, transparent. there's not been much of that recently. congressman, thank you very much for joining me. >> thank you. coming up next, former senator olympia snowe is on the watchdog committee overlooking the irs. does she think president obama is facing a presidential curse, second term scandals? it's monday.

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the whole issue of talking points, frankly, throughout this process has been a side show. the whole thing defies logic and the fact that this keeps on getting turned out, frankly, has a lot to do with political motivation. >> angry president obama today calling the battle over benghazi political. my next guest knows a lot about washington's dysfunctional politics, republican olympia snowe after the senate after three terms when she became convinced that congress is simply not doing its job. she's still dedicated to fixing the system and keeping america great. she's the author of fighting for common ground. she joins me now. before we go further, i want to read a tweet from rocky m which says careful attacking the administration, you might get deported. we have been down this path earlier this year and i'm within my first amendment rights. i'm allowed to have an opinion so i'm relaxed on that. if you want to tweet me, i will use a few of those tomorrow night.

senator, you heard me talking earlier to a few people about what's been going on. this is a bad, bad week for barack obama, isn't it? >> it is, for the president and i think the sooner he can get ahead of it and the white house and to address all these issues and these concerns, the better off they will be and certainly the country. >> this whole thing of transparency, this is about as far removed from transparency as you can get. justice department sneaking around with reporters' phone records, the irs attacking the tea party for overt political reasons, benghazi. you put it all together, it's a mess. >> well, it is, in the sense also the american people, you know, are already losing confidence in their institutions and now this just compounds their fears and their affirmations. >> i get a sense everything is being done now, whether on the republican side or the democrat side, everything is being done for pure political reasons.

the national interest of america seems to be secondary to that. >> it is. that's unfortunate but you're right. that's exactly why i made the decision to leave the united states senate. wondering whether or not it would be possible to change that dynamic from within the institution or outside. i took my fight outside the united states senate and encouraging people to place a premium on bipartisanship. have political rewards for those politicians who engage in consensus and compromise and bipartisanship and political penalties for those who don't. we have to change it. we have to speak up and engage the public, and that's why i'm traveling around the country talking on political campuses. young people understand the stake that they have in the future and they're deeply concerned. we're creating a link with the bipartisan policy center that was cofounded by four former majority leaders, daschle, mitchell, baker and dole, and we want to have people to have the

means by which they cannot only channel their frustrations by do something about it, and demand results on capitol hill. we need to have a government that's going to respond to the crucial issues. they're not dealing with the big issues anymore, piers. that's the problem now. >> take the white house. their reaction to benghazi wasn't really anything to do with us. their reaction to irs, well, nothing to do with us. reaction to the a.p. scandal, whoa, whoa, whoa, we knew nothing about any of this. it stretches any kind of plausibility that nobody at the white house knew about this. >> congress has to get to the bottom of it and the white house has to provides answers but it has to be done on a bipartisan basis. seeking the truth should be a bipartisan pursuit. republicans can't be overly political about it and the democrats can't be overly dismissive. they've got to get together. we've had crises and scandals in the past, we have able to transcend them by virtue of working together hand in glove

to get it done. that's what needs to be done in this instance. when you think about benghazi, men and women's lives are at stake in the foreign service. i worked on these issues in the '80s, i co-authored the legislation that created the diplomatic security bureau, the regional security office and the accountability review board. now we're seeing examples once again that demonstrate that we haven't learned from the past events. and something went terribly wrong. >> what's been the reaction to your book up on the hill? have you had a good reaction? >> i haven't heard from my former colleagues. people have been positive. >> do they want to hear this message? >> i think so, because there are a number of people both in the house and the senate that want to work together and get things done. they understand just what you said is that it's being -- it's the politics over the policies, become a perpetual campaign. there used to be a time where the first year after the election you sat down with the president and the congress, you

synchronized the agenda and plowed through the issues. that didn't mean to say you -- >> everyone is in permanent election mode. >> they are. >> at the moment, electioneering in american politics means attacking so everyone is in permanent attack dog mode. the national interest of america is not being served. >> it isn't. it's to the detriment of this country. that's why i decided to write this book. i wasn't planning on writing a book when i made my announcement not to seek re-election because i wanted to make the point to the american people it's time to change it, they have to change it and there are ways to do it in realtime through the technology that you use so well. absolutely. people can do it. just as those who fanned the flames of polarization, we ought to be able to do it together and seek bipartisanship and demand it. otherwise you know what, you're out. >> i totally agree. >> we don't even have a budget. >> you are speaking my language. actually, you're not, really. you sort of are. it's a common language. finding common ground, terrific

book. i urge everyone in washington, never mind the viewers, washington, go read this book. wake up to what is happening. thank you very much. >> thank you, piers. coming up, law and disorder. the cases america can't get enough of from jodi arias to the cleveland kidnappings to o.j. simpson back in court. gloria allred joins me along with casey anthony's former attorney, jose baez. [ male announcer ] every inch. every minute. every second -- we chip away. making the colors of earth and sunset skies into rich interior accents. or putting the beauty of a forest in the palm of your hands... it will take you to another place... wherever you happen to be. this is the new 2014 jeep grand cherokee. it is the best of what we're made of. well-qualified lessees can lease the 2014 grand cherokee laredo 4x4 for $359 a month.

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the guilty verdict today, the shocking trial of abortion of three infants after they were born. the doctor was also convicted in the death of a patient. it's one of several cases making tabloid headlines. author of presumed guilty. also here, my old friend attorney, welcome to you both. let's start with this case of dr. gosnell. should he get the death penalty, do you think? >> well, he's certainly eligible for it. my real concern, though, is the political nature of all of this in the sense that the aebt choice, the anti-choice are already trying to use this case,

piers, as a way to get new laws which will restrict abortions even further and will then cause women to have to seek back-alley doctors, such as dr. gosnell. >> right. he fragrantly breeched existing laws. that's what we're dealing with. >> yes, absolutely. and then we have various other factors as to his intent. you know, common sense will tell you that if you're delivering a live baby, that that's absolute and complete murder. but i think there's going to be a lot of grey here in the area of the sentencing phase as to what his actual intent was and whether it was easily provable that he had specific intent to murder. >> and i think we're going to have to condemn the department of health in pennsylvania. after all, they are the ones who should have been at that clinic and monitoring the practices to make sure that they were safe

and not dangerous to a woman's health and to her life. but they weren't there, haven't been there, apparently, since 1983. >> let's move onto o.j. simpson. he's appearing in court on wednesday against his conviction. this time, we may get to hear o.j. testify. >> i think you're definitely going to hear from him. the key issue here is whether the plea was actually conveyed to o.j. now, if mr. simpson claims that it wasn't delivered and he says that it was, i think the court will err on the side of caution and actually deny his petition. but if there's some other type of evidence that actually lends credence to his argument that he was not given that plea, that's a very, very serious thing. as a defense lawyer, you have to declare all pleas to your client. >> right.

just to refresh you, o.j. was convicted of gun forfeitture seizure. he's claiming there was a plea he didn't know about. >> well, he is. in addition, he's saying that his lawyer gave him advice that, apparently, that he could do what obviously he cannot do, because it's illegal, to go in and take what he says is his property, as long as he didn't use physical force or trespass. now, mr. galanter denies that advice. but if, in fact, the judge would believe that bad advice was given, than mr. galanter would have a conflict in representing him. he would have a conflict in whether to testify or not at the trial because that might affect the attorney's reputation if he gave that advice. and that is very serious. so the ineffective assistance of counsel argument is an uphill battle for any defendant to

make, but the argument, if believed, that his client, that yale had a conflict of interest and shouldn't have represented him would go to simpson not having criminal intent and could result in that judgment or verdict being set aside. >> and that could be a big day in the course because jodi arias could also, literally, be fighting for her life. trying to ward off a death penalty sentence. what do you think will happen there? >> well, in this case, i initially thought that she had a great shot at getting life in prison. after this interview, which i know the prosecutor is going to use against her, i think he's going to play it. he's going to harp on it. he's going to put it in her face just like he did with the no-jury-will-ever-convict me statement. >> it's going to be a fascinating day on wednesday. o.j. simpson and jodi arias both on the stand.

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i will leave you with some breaking news. a suspect has just been identified in the new orleans mother's day shooting with 19 people shot and injured. authorities are looking for a 19-year-old man named aiken scott. that's it for tonight.

send us a tweet and i may read them in our show if they're not too rude. that's all for us tonight, anderson cooper starts right now. out rage at the obama administration's justice department. today, we learned they had secretly collected telephone records of reporting and editors at the associated press. two months worth. the a.p. calls it an unprecedented intrusion. this on top of charges that the irs is targeting conservative groups. also a gunman opens fire at a mother's day parade, wounding 19 people, three of them critically. the shootings caught on tape. the gunman or gunmen still at large. just ahead, we talk to an eyewitness who believes the gunman was standing right next to him during the shooting. we begin in west cleveland, where exactly one week ago to